Environment

Covering a full range of environmental and sustainability issues in Vancouver, British Columbia and Canada as a whole

Metro Vancouver wants emission rules for region's cannabis producers

The regional district has been talking about coming up with regulations for years

Sea lice dropped after salmon farms removed: study

Parasites on wild pink, chum salmon dropped 96% post salmon farm removal: Morton, Routledge

FortisBC starts methane capture expansion at landfill

Methane captured at Delta landfill to be sold to City of Vancouver as renewable natural gas

Seven in 10 Canadians worried about climate change, link it to extreme weather

Poll comes at the end of Canada's worst wildfire season in history.

Urban development 'nibbling' away at Metro Vancouver's sensitive ecosystems: report

Metro Vancouver's urban core is losing hundreds of hectares of sensitive ecosystems annually as regional planners attempt to increase protected lands by 25 per cent, by 2050

B.C.'s forests are becoming more flammable due to climate change, finds study

New study finds rising temperatures due to climate change have dried out B.C.'s forests, leading to a historic spike in wildfire activity over the past two decades.

B.C. a summer hot spot for climate-driven warming, study finds

A new study has found that during the Northern Hemisphere's summer, climate change boosted temperatures for over half the world's population

A recipe for making Canada more competitive

Canada West Foundation finds ways to fine-tune environmental permitting